Scott Stabile: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We sometimes close our hearts off for various reasons. Whether it’s because of a traumatic event, losing someone close to us, or any other number of reasons, we are very prone to buying in to the “Doomsday scenarios” our mind creates. Scott Stabile knows all about that, but he’s learned how to live life with an open heart. Hear his story about how his parents were killed, joining a cult, making the decision to leave, and discovering how to open up his heart along the way.
Scott Stabile is a self-help writer and speaker. He’s the author of several books, and his most recent work is Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's perfectly reasonable to close your heart initially if that's what you're being called to do if that's in if that's what your pain is is asking you to do in the moment or if that's all you're capable of in the moment. |
| 0:13.6 | I think that ultimately if you're moving through your life with a closed heart because of this one |
| 0:18.4 | event no matter how tragic it was you're not doing yourself any service. So I just recognize, you know, from many |
| 0:26.4 | experiences in my life I know what it's like to move through my life with an |
| 0:31.0 | open heart to move through my life with love as a guiding force and with the |
| 0:36.8 | desire to connect with others from a vulnerable open and loving space. |
| 0:42.0 | It has transformed my life profoundly so I feel like when we have |
| 0:46.8 | the experience and if you look at the reasons let's say you were you were dumped |
| 0:51.6 | you know you were you were in love and the person left |
| 0:54.8 | you and you were left completely heartbroken by that experience which is why many of us |
| 0:59.9 | would be inclined to shut down and to close our hearts because we don't want to feel the pain of that again. |
| 1:05.2 | But I think what we're forgetting in that moment is how we felt when we were living with that open heart, |
| 1:11.0 | when we were feeling in love, you know, when we were feeling the experience. with that |
| 1:15.0 | we were feeling in love, you know, when we were feeling the experiences that were bringing us joy in that relationship, |
| 1:18.0 | compared to how it feels to move through life closed down, |
| 1:24.2 | simply out of fear that we're gonna experience |
| 1:27.9 | the same thing that we experienced |
| 1:30.5 | when our heart was broken. I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast |
| 1:39.0 | where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started |
| 1:44.0 | movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books and created |
| 1:47.8 | insanely interesting art. For more check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable |
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